WORK AND WAGES

Southland Times, Issue 19657, 6 October 1922, Page 5

WORK AND WAGES

AMERICAN RAILWAY MEN. WAOES AND CONDITIONS. (By Telegraph.-—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) NEW YORK, October 5. (Received October 5. 10.15 p.m.) Mr Davis, Secretary for Labour, addressing railroad workmen at Detroit, declared that President Harding believed the railway workers’ wages and conditions should make the employment so attractive that strikes would be impossible. The workman’s wages must be enough to enable him to make a home and insure that the snuggle tor existence would not deprive him of the essentials of life. NEW SOUTH WALES MINERS. SAFETY-LAMPS AND MEETINGS. SYDNEY, October 5. (Received October 5, *11.20 p.m.) At a meeting of -the delegate board of the southern miners, a letter from the Southern Colliery Proprietors’ Association asking that a motion passed at the aggregate meeting regarding stopwork meetings on Wednesdays be rescinded was submitted. The board decided to recommend that provided the owners agree to instal electric safety lamps by March the men would work as usual on Wednesdays. The recommendation will be submitted to the various lodges for ratification, and it is expected that the result will be known on Monday next. AN ADELAIDE STRIKE. ADELAIDE, October 5. The clotliing trade employees who have been on strike for a mouth, have resumed work at pre-strike rales.